See also: bruch, bŕuch, and břuch

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Etymology 1 edit

From Middle High German bruch, from Old High German bruh, from Proto-West Germanic *bruki. Cognate with English breach.

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  • IPA(key): /bʁʊx/
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  • Rhymes: -ʊx

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Bruch m (strong, genitive Bruches or Bruchs, plural Brüche)

  1. break, breaking, breach, fracture, rupture
  2. (mathematics) fraction
  3. (medicine) fracture (of a bone)
    Synonyms: Knochenbruch, (medical parlance) Fraktur
  4. (medicine) hernia
    sich einen Bruch hebento get a hernia from heavy lifting
    Synonyms: Leistenbruch, Eingeweidebruch, (medical parlance) Hernie
    1. (figuratively) (to) excess, very much
      sich einen Bruch lachento split one's sides (literally, “to laugh oneself a hernia”)
  5. (slang) Short for Einbruch (break-in).
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From Middle High German bruoch, from Old High German bruoh, from Proto-West Germanic *brōk n. Cognate with English brook.

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Bruch m or n (strong, genitive Bruches or Bruchs, plural (masculine) Brüche or (neuter) Brücher)

  1. (now chiefly in placenames) a wetland, marsh, moist meadow (especially kinds fit for pastoral use, rather than actual bogs or swamps)
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From Middle High German bruoch, from Old High German bruoh, from Proto-West Germanic *brōk f. Cognate with English breech.

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Bruch f (genitive Bruch, plural Bruchen or Brüche)

  1. (obsolete) pair of hose, leggings, pants, trousers [usual until ca. 1700]
    Synonyms: Hose, Strumpfhose, Unterhose
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Bruch m (plural Brich)

  1. breach
  2. hernia

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Bruch

  1. A small town in central Luxembourg.

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Compare German Bruch, Dutch breuk, English breach.

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Bruch m (plural Brich)

  1. quarry
  2. breach
  3. hernia

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Bruch m

  1. rupture
  2. hiatus
  3. hernia